Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

Agency overview
Formed30 April 1909
Dissolved1979
JurisdictionGovernment of the United Kingdom
Footnotes
later "Aeronautical Research Committee" then "Aeronautical Research Council", disbanded 1979

The Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (ACA) was a UK agency founded on 30 April 1909, to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research. In 1919 it was renamed the Aeronautical Research Committee, later becoming the Aeronautical Research Council.

Following the establishment of this committee, other countries created similar agencies, notably the French L’Etablissement Central de l’Aérostation Militaire in Meudon (now ONERA), the Russian "Aerodynamic Institute of Koutchino" and the U.S.A.'s National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, founded in 1915.

The Aeronautical Research Council was disbanded in 1979.

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